Jeremiah, Zedekiah, and the Fall of Jerusalem - A Study of Prophetic Narrative

Zusatztext "This book is recommended to all who continue to make the prophetic literature their scholarly home and to those biblical scholars studying outside the prophets who like a good narrative." Tyler Mayfield! Claremont Graduate University! Religious Studies Review Informationen zum Autor Mark Roncace is Assistant Professor of Religion at Wingate University in Wingate! North Carolina! USA. He has published articles on a variety of subjects! and is the co-editor of Teaching the Bible: Practical Strategies for Classroom Instruction . Zusammenfassung Offers a narratological, intertextual reading of Jeremiah 37:1 to 40:6, a text that features the interaction between the prophet Jeremiah and King Zedekiah in the context of events surrounding the fall of Jerusalem. This book argues that the text develops complex images of both Zedekiah and Jeremiah, and invites sympathy and criticism for both.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Roncace, Roncace Mark
• Assisted by: Claudia V. Camp (Editor), Andrew Mein (Editor)
• Publisher: T. & T. Clark Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2005
• EAN: 9780567026712
• ISBN: 978-0-567-02671-2
• No. of pages: 210
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Te; Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Te; The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; RELIGION / Biblical Meditations / General, Bible readings, selections & meditations, Bible readings, selections and meditations